These nine case studies, written by Russian, German and Austrian scholars and based on archival findings, should shed new light on deportations and resettlement in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany.

During and after World War II, millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe were uprooted and deported from their ancestral homelands in an unprecedented series of ethnic cleansings. The expulsion of minorities created more homogenous states than had previously existed in the region but caused massive social and psychological problems that lasted for generations. These nine case studies, written by Russian, German and Austrian scholars and based on archival findings, should shed new light on deportations and resettlement in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany. The introduction places forced migration throughout the region in a broad historical context.

Repressive population transfers in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe - a historical overview, Alfred J. Rieber

the deportation of the Polish population to the USSR, 1939-1941, N.S. Lebedeva
the Polish-Czechoslovak conflict over Teschen - the problem of resettling Poles and the position of
the USSR, T.V. Volokitina
the Catholic Church and the deportation of ethnic Germans from the Czech lands, Emilia Hrabovec
the fate of the Hungarian minorities in Slovakia after the Second World War - resettlement and re-Slovakization - Moscow's position, G.P. Murashko
migration of the Germans after the Second World War - political and psychological aspects, A.F. Noskova
"Make the Germans do it" - the refugee problem in the American zone of post-war Germany, Sylvia Schraut
the integration of deportees into the society of the Federal Republic of Germany, Thomas Grosser
refugees and expellees in the Soviet zone of Germany - political and social problems of their integration, 1945-50, Michael Schwartz
ethnography of an encounter - reactions to refugees in post-war Germany and Russian migrants after reunification - context analogies and change, Suzanne Spulbeck.